Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formerly Zaire, has in recent history been portrayed as a nation whose riches have been a curse rather than a blessing. It is indeed a country caught in unending ...
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DR Congo: The endless mirage of Freedom
In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...
In part, this history has origins in the 1994 Rwandan ... Many Hutu then fled across the border to the DR Congo. Kagame has called for the need to neutralize the Democratic Forces for the ...
It eventually resulted into the two Chiefs of Defence of Forces, Gen Célestin Mbala Munsense (Armed Forces of DR Congo) and ...
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... WHO’s emergency response coordinator for the DR Congo. open image in gallery Residents leave their homes to fetch ...
DR Congo's information minister has said the police ... The country's neighbours - Uganda and Rwanda - have a long history of backing rebel groups in the east. Their embassies are among those ...
Congo has had a long history of hiring mercenaries to bolster its forces, such as the siege on Jadotville in 1961, which saw foreign mercenaries and local militias attacking a UN base manned by Irish ...
For the first time in its history, the people of Congo, through M23, have neutralized this foreign threat. Here, 288 Romanian mercenaries who surrendered to M23 are counted and sent back to Europe ...